Speaking of The View and Whoope Goldberg

In what appeared to be an attempt at defending disgraced Atlanta Falcon quarterback Michael Vick, Goldberg pointed to geography as a possible reason for Vick’s extracurricular dogfighting activities.
“You know from his background, this is not an unusual thing for where he comes from,” Goldberg explained on the live telecast. “There are certain things that are indicative to certain parts of our country.” The Oscar winner went on to explain that Vick is from “the deep South” and that “this is part of his cultural upbringing.” As co-host Joy Behar shook her head in disagreement, “View” co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck went on to point out that in some cultures it’s also deemed acceptable to beat your wife as well.

I went to a labor day party and picnic monday. I live in the South.I must have missed the traditional dog fighting events.Still haven't figured out where the wife beating party was though.
How do these babbling idiots stay on the air? Are there that many women out there watching them?
Really?

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in the blogs about Vick. And no one was all too deeply shocked when they busted the guy off of Mammy Grant in Prichardville, especially since many have hinted there is current dog fighting right outside Bluffton. While I think it's horrible and wrong many articles and others have pointed out that this is common practice in many rural areas, which that area is.

It was nice to hea rthat many consider that east coast section of Virginia to be "deep" south. Maybe that will shut up some who insist that becaus eI was raised in Virginia I'm a Yankee. Well I am technically being born in NY but was raised completely in VA. Finally a little rest LOL

I understood what Whoopi was trying to say, she just picked a dumb way to say it. Some cultures in areas of the world force their women to cover their faces all the time. Some cultures fight a bull and stab it to death. So? "Culture" makes it acceptable? It used to be a major part of American culture to keep people who look like Whoopi Goldberg as slaves or hang them from tree branches for "fun". Some cultures have to go, and with good reason. Especially cultures based in harmful practices.

Here's what I don't understand... can't somebody make a video game where you train beasts that are fantasy, but dog-like, to fight each other in pits? You know, make it super-realistic, but not "real", like a future where seedy underworld guys fight genetically-enhanced beasts for money? You could base the physics and the look of the game as close to the reality of dog-fighting as is comfortable, then make the game a future-fantasy thing so it's not REALLY dogfighting.

I think anyone with these latent dog-fighting urges would play the hell out of that game if it was good, and without realizing it they'd get those ugly urges sated. No animals harmed!!!

I love your idea. You should hurry up and patent or trademark it or whatever it is that you do with ideas before someone else scoops it up and makes millions off of it. I think it'd be an awesome game if done right. Look at those Vice City games (and those like it). Perfect for those of us that would never think to do those things for real, but when mired in fantasy, we get addicted.

If I had a game company, I'd be on this already. I love exorcising darker urges in Grand Theft Auto harmlessly, and I can't understand why nobody's thought of this idea already. After you play GTA for a good while, you start thinking "How many people could I shoot before the police bring me down with tanks and death squads?" And then you have your own little "SimPsycho" game where you run amok and laugh your butt off. Plus, every single person who's ever played GTA has done this. In groups of friends. Drunk. And nobody goes out afterwards and reenacts a single solitary thing from GTA. Except maybe the trash-talking.